Technology

“Your video will begin in 140 seconds.”

We notice the sort of design that demands to be noticed, and make the mistake of proclaiming it to be some kind of “game changer”, glossing over its functional failings in favor of its unique approach to a problem. But the truth is that the game is much more likely to be changed incrementally, by design that doesn’t call attention to itself. When we wake up tomorrow, we won’t be greeted by a new and… See more →

Nothing like some good ol’ DVD damage making the final five minutes of a four hour movie unwatchable.

Just throw it in Adobe and sprinkle some AJAX on it.

I first gained access to the internet on the cusp of adulthood, a few months before I graduated high school in 1994. In the years that followed, it steadily gained presence in my daily life, and in tandem with higher education and venturing timidly into “the real world”, the internet helped expand my universe far beyond its humble origins.

Today, I live in a major metropolitan hub, have personal and professional relationships on almost every… See more →

It’s a beautiful day for a clean install.

Friends, I respect your carefully considered career decisions, but honestly, too many of you now work at Facebook for it not to be creepy.

Anyone have recommendations for iPhone speaker docks under $100?

Another one bites the Facebook.

Once @fiftythree’s Paper can behave more like its namesake, it’ll be great. For now, latency and multitouch clumsiness are too frustrating.

Dramatically restructuring a business model is no small task, but come on, the magazine publishers aren’t even trying. nytimes.com/2012/04/12/techno…

All Apple/journalism/etc issues aside, don’t you just want to kick Mike Daisey in the shins every time he says “the theater”?

Until I get a stylus to use with Paper (for iPad), I’ll just draw this over and over again. paper.fiftythree.com

Is there a service that can tell me by percentage how much each person I follow contributed to my Twitter stream during a given timeframe?

Personal statistics fascinate me, and in the information age, I’m collecting a ton of them. Last.fm keeps track of what music I listen to and when I listen to it. Letterboxd does the same for movies, and the tagging system I’m using within it tells me how the movies were formatted, where I watched them, and more. Goodreads and Instapaper keep tabs on my reading, Foursquare and Tripit chronicle the details of my travels, and… See more →

Hoping the implications of retina displays lead more designers and developers to embrace SVG when appropriate.

What I think @robinsloan’s Fish overlooks is that the web is made of bite-size stuff, a traditionally ephemeral class of content.

Lots of important things I need to do today, so I’m updating all my @letterboxd film diary entries with a new tag taxonomy instead.

Excited to see what @Rdio unveils next week, but all I really want is to be able to get through a song without the stream crapping out.

If @lanyrd is to be believed, there are at least 2838 speakers at SXSW Interactive this year. That’s… madness. lanyrd.com/2012/sxsw-inte…

PSA: Yes, your device lets you shoot video in portrait orientation, but that doesn’t mean there will ever be a good reason for you to do it.

Apparently the only way to delete one of your photos from iOS’s Photo Stream is to delete all of your photos from iOS’s Photo Stream. Great.

Finally upgraded to a @dribbble Pro account. No idea why it took me this long. dribbble.com/robweychert

“All your music is on Spotify,” says an e-mail I received from @Spotify, who has chosen to begin our relationship with a bald-faced lie.

Home alone on a Saturday night. Scowling at the OS X Lion Character Viewer’s inclusion of Emoji. These are not unrelated happenings.

Despite all our justified griping about its bloat and various issues, Photoshop is still a lot of fun to use for certain tasks.

“We need to think about products over posters and people over page views.” That @FictiveCameron is a gem. alistapart.com/articles/an-im…

The whole of communication technology is merely an extension of pigment on surface, the fundamental technique of indirect language transmission. Radio and television and computers do more work for us, sure. They parse ideas into shapes and colors and sounds. But there is nothing they can do that can’t be recreated with a lump of mud and a fertile imagination, a method as viable today as it was five thousand years ago.

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When @Rdio is missing music, I can always find something else, but the absence of Touch and Go’s entire catalog is getting to be a problem.

Online services that don’t let you delete your account make baby Jesus cry.

Today’s example of how recommendation engines are bullshit:

Why does this article about using Skype for music lessons make no mention of latency, the concept’s chief impediment? nytimes.com/2012/01/11/us/mus…

Growing more and more convinced that above all, the social web exists to remind me how little I have in common with my friends.

An album that I listened to once four months ago is still in my @Rdio profile’s Heavy Rotation list, and it’s driving me crazy.

Just stumbled on something very strange. Who can tell me what’s wrong with this picture? (Hint provided.)

“Hey, Mac OS Dictionary widget, I don’t remember exactly how to spell this word, but it’s something like this. Little help?” “No. Fuck you.”

When I tell you not to e-mail me again, and then you e-mail me to confirm that you won’t e-mail me again, I rub the gun barrel on my cheek.

Dude just cleaned his iPhone screen by giving it two big licks and wiping it on his pants.

Congrats to @khoi and @thescottostler on the launch of @mixelapp! My first mixel: mxl.io/tmvIo5

Baffled by people bitching about Gmail/Reader’s new look. The old look was a fucking nightmare.

My MacBook Pro is much more powerful than my Xbox, yet does not require a huge brick to power it. Please to explain.

Perhaps above all else, it is iOS 5’s five-finger pinch to get to the iPad home screen that convinces me I’m living in the future. So great.

Apocalyptic Adobe Illustrator CS5 tantrum in 3… 2… 1…

Okay, @todd_park is one of the best speakers I have ever seen. #BrooklynBeta

Just discovered that hashbang URLs break my browser history. I disliked them on principle before; now it’s personal.

The only update I really want from BBEdit is a logo that isn’t visually exhausting.

Rest in peace, Steve. You were one in a billion.

Thank you, Steve.

You know, once you find the humor in how shockingly atrocious AT&T Wireless service is, you’ll have a lifetime’s worth of laughs in a month.

First physical newspaper I’ve read in a long time. I keep looking to the top of the page for the current time.